Description

A world of learning and fun, made just for kids

We created YouTube Kids to make it safer and simpler for kids to explore the world through online video – from their favorite shows and music to learning how to build a model volcano (or make slime ;-), and everything in between. There’s also a whole suite of parental controls, so you can tailor the experience to your family’s needs.

A safer online experience for kids

We use a mix of filters, user feedback and human reviewers to keep the videos in YouTube Kids family friendly. But no system is perfect and inappropriate videos can slip through, so we’re constantly working to improve our safeguards and offer more features to help parents create the right experience for their families.

Get the scoop on all the control features available to you:

KID PROFILES: Create up to eight kid profiles, each with their own viewing preferences, video recommendations, and settings.

BLOCKING: Find a video or channel you don’t want your kid to watch? Block it to automatically remove it from all of your kids’ profiles.

VIDEO REPORTING: Alert us immediately by reporting videos that shouldn’t be in the app. The video will be sent to us for fast review.

SEARCH CONTROL: Turn search on so kids can access more videos. Turn search off for a more contained experience.

TIMER: Set up a timer to put limits on how long your kids can play with the app.

WATCH HISTORY: Keep tabs on what your kids are watching in the app.

WATCH ON TV: Gather your family and enjoy YouTube Kids on select TVs

For more information, visit kids.youtube.com.

Other important information:Parental setup is needed to ensure the best experience possible for your kid.

YouTube Kids contains paid ads in order to offer the app for free. Your kid may also see videos with commercial content from YouTube creators that are not paid ads.

Important information for parents with Family Link Google accounts. You can create Google Accounts for kids under the age of 13 in Family Link. Your kids can sign into YouTube Kids with their Google Account. You can access parental settings in the Family Link app and enable an additional content level setting in our app. Opt into an “older” setting if you feel your kid is ready for less restricted videos. These videos may contain some explicit language and imagery, violence and suggestive content. In addition, this setting tries to exclude mature content, but no automated system is perfect and your kid may find content with nudity, highly offensive language, and extreme violence.

The Privacy Notice for Google Accounts created in Family Link describes our privacy practices when your kid uses YouTube Kids with their Google Account. When your kid uses YouTube Kids without signing into their Google Account, the YouTube Kids Privacy Notice applies.

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Sara Garland

Please let us turn autoplay off. I dont know how many times I have come home to this app still running with a dead phone. Also let us set a data limit as well. Like turn down to 480 or lower to consume internet for the month.

Bill Furl

My 5 year old loves this app. It's very easy for her to navigate and I don't have to worry about scary zombies or something inappropriate popping up.

Patricia Morales

Umm I saw on YouTube a mom is shocked when her toddler was watching something inappropriate on YouTube kids is Guppies But inappropriate so all parents watch out

My brother knows more about the app then me he loves it

Good app for the youngins.

Loreal Spears

Awesome app!

User reviews

Sara Garland February 17, 2018

Please let us turn autoplay off. I dont know how many times I have come home to this app still running with a dead phone. Also let us set a data limit as well. Like turn down to 480 or lower to consume internet for the month.

My little guy is almost 2.5 and he absolutely loves the you tube kid app. He is able to easily operate it, with out any trouble. The video quality is good. Our favorite feature is the timer app on it, you can do all the way up to an hour. We also enjoy the offline photos as well, makes traveling 10x easier. The only downfall is that sometimes there are videos that pop up that I don't necessarily agree with for him, but that is very rare .

There are too many videos to be actively screening out/blocking. It would be better and safer for kids if parents could add specific videos or channels they deem appropriate to their kids' app. Like an individually tailored sandbox. Not the backwards way it is now. Also, if I find one video unsuitable from a channel, I'd like to block that whole channel. Sucks for creators, but they have to prove themselves trustworthy before I let them have my child's attention.

Instead of enhancing the graphics, colours and interfaces of this apps, it will be better if you guys put a BLOCK VIDEO button that actually works, and a CLEAR VIDEO HISTORY button again on the next update. That'll will helps a lot of concerned parents,save time blocking garbage videos. 5 stars if you manage to do that.

I would like to be able to block certain videos and even certain usernames like SharmitusPrime. These people are reviewing toys. Seems innocent enough. But they're showing twerking and cleavage during intro and saying disgusting things during the video. Please get them off YouTube Kids. I'm sure there are other videos (aside from videos by SharmitusPrime) that parents would love to be able to block.

This app is perfect for ages 3 through about 7/8. Simple to use and navigate. I'm shocked though honestly, I'm wondering why the parents of the spoilt sounding children rating this app haven't helped them to articulate their thoughts and concerns better. If you do not care for an app, that's obviously ok. But posting that the app is "stupid and baby stuff and booooorrrriiinnngg" doesn't make the creators take issues seriously. And it won't help to add new content.

Great idea badly executed. It needs the option of creating a playlist and not allowing the kid to search outside this list. The view history doesn't work properly and if you want to play a certain cartoon why are the suggestions so strange? Why can I not keep playing videos of the same cartoon rather than these ridiculous suggestions?

Great for young kids, would like to be able to set an automatic daily time limit, rather than manually setting it each time my daughter uses the app. Also needs a simple block button for users and channels. Willo gladly pay for YouTube red to get rid of ads as they really frustrate my disabled daughter who just doesn't understand why the video she wants doesn't always play, but YouTube red isn't available in the uk yet.

It would be great if you could whitelist channels instead of blacklist them. YouTube is filled with garbage "kid's videos" and who knows what weird video my kid will end up watching. I'd rather set up approved channels than block them as I happen to find them.

Forces you to play only HD. Does not give option to play in SD. Will give 5 stars when that option appears on the app. I have an older tablet that struggles to play HD so it's stutters and freezes, and this app EATS UP a lot of data.

My kids love the app. he always left the app open or some times just minimise it. The app consume a lot of data even in the minimise mode. In night during my sleep (6 hours) the app consume more than 1.5 GB of data in minimise mode. Please rectify the same.

My son loves it and I like that I don't have to spend too much time creating specific playlists because I'm worried some other videos not suited for my 2 year old will sneak in like on YouTube. It's got variety and not the same ole videos. Awesome intro menu too!

My daughter is behind in speech so we put on shows to help her and the next video is in chineese seriously!!! And the data usage.. its been on twice this month and hardly on and had used 6GB data what a joke!!

This app was amazing. I havent come across anything suggestive or innappropriate. My parents weren't too enthusiastic for me to have youtube, so youtube kids was a great alternatuve. Both them and i were and are 100% satisfied with this app. Can you please add a subscribe button? Thx. And dont forget to please subscribe to hgilk1 diy

My grandson loves watching videos. He's learned so much from the educational videos and it's helped his speech. The only thing I'd change is the parental settings. I'd really prefer to limit a majority of what he watches. There's just some things a 3 year old shouldn't be watching.

Why did you remove the watch history? I'd rather risk "grown up" YouTube where I can at least see what they've been watching than have zero visibility. This is a must-fix. Edit: I'm reviewing this just to see if Google had fixed this glaring oversight, and nothing yet. This is a major issue that needs to be addressed.

It's a great app.. my son love it. I have a little glitch ie.. I couldn't find screen lock option, while my son watch videos he like to touch the screen and mess up. Lock screen while playing video will be a great plus point.

Great app. But the developers need a screen lock while a video is playing for small toddlers who turn their favourite video off by mistake then start crying and repeat the process until I am forced to download the same cartoons via torrents and use the screen lock on MX Player.

This app is good for kids and i love this app soooo nice T.V show and Cartoons...But 1 problem dedicated me all Ultimste spider man cartoon videos are not full all of things is 41,51seconds or 1minute soo we are love to see the ultimate spider man...soo we need it full cartoon solve it fastly😩😩😩😩

Not only are the videos not screened well enough for kids but the app completely blocks out phone calls so you can't answer them. Made me miss so many calls including important doctors phone calls for my daughter...

No enough robust filtering options for parents to keep the endless garbage content on this service from being available to their children. I would rather have my kid see the odd boob then to be subjected to the endless toy commercials and ads maskerading as content and the pervasive family finger reditions and other nonesense that makes up the bulk of youtube "kids" videos.

Please bring back the "history" and "recommended" features but also add a feature where we can block certain videos as there are still some with inappropriate content. Such as videos randomly inducing actions of violence that are totally unrelated to the songs playing in the background, especially as I'm seeing toddlers are actually imitating the behaviors! I wish there was a way create playlists or save channels and then to filter out videos, e.g. like the languages. I really don't need my kid who's 2 learning to talk but watching videos in Thai or Indian...

I hate there are bad animations with minecraft with blood I get shocked I hate it 😢 I wish there were no teen thing on here very scary if u hate blood don't get it☺ I can't report be cuz it's too scary and it says u need a profile

hi, your app is really awesome! my kids love it so much. but please make an option where parents can save videos or add them in "watch later" tab. An offline version will also be great. and please make blocking (video/ channel/ username) much easier because there's plenty of videos i would like to block.

I love it It is my favorite thing about this weekend I watch it I love it because it have naiah and Elli in your favorite shows that you always want to watch for the whole entire is cute cute cute cute cute and it got Teen Titans Go it's my favorite thing ever you know how I love the thing that my name is Peyton you don't get it my name is Jesus Christ. Naiah and Elli you always want to do is my favorite thing ever everything is my favorite thing and you I love this very much these shows are so funny it's so hilarious I would just want to watch this the whole entire week I love it I love it I love it I love it so much I always want to say :-* :-* he's trying to say sister and Grandma but he saying a whole lot of things it's my favorite

My 3 year old loves YouTube!!! She has learned the whole Alphabet, count to 10, sing, the dances to all her favorite kid song's, every color & shape, & etc. etc. She started watching YouTube channel at 1 yr old & keeps learning new thing's. I love that the kids version has no commercials or Ad's & has parental settings. Best of all it's free! No having to upgrade & pay for those things & no subscription or fee.

Fantastic for parents in keeping kidz busy. Only one thing that starting any videos the video hangs initially. If possible pls look at that!!! Anyways a gr8 app to keep kidz busy. All in one app learning with fun for kidz. Keep it up!!!

My kids and I love it!! I have a 9 year old, a 3 year old and a 1year old and I really like how they can have their own profiles and can enjoy watching their own stuff otherwise they'd be fighting over what they want to watch.

YouTube kids is a very kid friendly app which helps kids know what they can watch or not. It is appropriate for young children. It will be better if they can add learning questions once in a while depending on their age.